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| Night Driver | |
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| Developer(s) | Atari, Inc. |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Designer(s) | Dave Shepperd s/w Ron Milner Steve Mayer Terry Fowler (hardware) |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Atari 2600, Commodore 64 |
| Release | Arcade Atari 2600Commodore 64
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| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Arcade system | 6502 @ 1.008 MHz |
Night Driver is an arcade video game developed by Atari, Inc. and released in the United States in October 1976. It's one of the earliest first-person racing video games and is commonly believed to be one of the first published video games to feature real-time first-person graphics. Night Driver has a black and white display with the hood of the player's car painted on a plastic overlay. The road is rendered as scaled rectangles representing "pylons" that line the edges.
Two arcade cabinet styles were manufactured: upright and sit-down. The upright version has a blacklight installed inside the cabinet which illuminated the bezel.[5][6]
Atari published a color version for the Atari Video Computer System in 1980.
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{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ "Night Driver (Registration Number PA0000174628)". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
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